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Poll: Democrats sucking wind in Colorado

Vulnerable Democrats didn’t need Barack Obama’s permission to shun him through November; they were already doing so. Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) performed rhetorical back flips to avoid answering whether he’d like the president to campaign with him in the Rocky Mountain state on CNN last week, and the “why” is not a mystery. Ed touched on this earlier, but here are Quinnipiac’s new numbers:

– The incumbent does not top 45 percent (which is also his job approval number) support against any hypothetical Republican challenger. He’s locked in virtual ties in the low 40’s against several.

– Only 42 percent of Coloradans say Udall deserves to be re-elected. A majority of respondents said a candidate’s support for Obamacare would make them less likely to vote for that person.

– Voters in the state disapprove of Obamacare generally by a (37/60) margin. This poll was taken before the CBO released its projection that the law will cost the US economy 2.3 million full-time workers.

– By a 30-point margin (!) Coloradans said President Obama campaigning for Udall would make them less likely than more likely to back Udall.

Toxic. Reading into2016 presidential polling at this stage is ridiculous, but just for kicks, Hillary Clinton is either trails or is virtually tied with four potential GOP candidates in the battleground state:

Seventy-seven percent of respondents said they’d heard about Christie’s bridge controversy, with 57 percent believing it would “damage” his presidential chances. Colorado voters split (36/42) on whether the New Jersey governor would make a good president, down from (48/29) in November. The feeding frenzy has taken its toll, and national Democrats are trying to plunge the dagger.

C’mon, zer0 , don’t admit defeat. Your fellow dims are just too shy and awestruck by your greatness to ask such a magnanamous favor as a helping hand on the campaign trail. Pay some surprise visits to these hard-up guys, turn their trailing numbers into leads. You can lower the sea levels and heal the earth. Use your wondrous and limitless powers to effect change by osmosis. lulz

So Colorado had to help reelect Obama AGAIN to realize they didn’t like him? Thanks, that was extremely helpful in 2012.

Xanatos90 on February 7, 2014 at 1:09 PM

My home state has been the somnolent victim of a planned attempt to turn a red state blue. It has taken 10 yrs., but has been fairly successful. Pretty solidly purple now owing to the strong blue influence along the metro front range.

However, the CO legislature made a mistake last year, passing various pointless gun laws. This awoke quite a few conservatives. We recalled 2 legislators, and another resigned rather than give the seat to a Republican in an election.

Pray they’re all so stoned on Election Day they don’t show up. Operation CHAOS II seems to be in order. Convince them not to vote since it’s in the bag, tell them to vote Wednesday, give them the wrong hours/locations of precincts, etc. Anything and everything to suppress the vote of imbeciles.

The real irony here is that Colorado is the ONLY state west of the Mississippi for which the average premium decreased due to obamacare. So on the whole people here are paying less for health insurance (deductibles notwithstanding) and are still ready to throw the responsible Dems out of office. At least we can hope so…

You forgot to say that the “premium decrease due to obamacare” is because the tax credits were higher for people in rural areas and that the rural areas don’t have docs and/or hospitals (so they don’t really have healthcare anyhow).

Let’s see. Who’s paying to provide those tax credits? Yep. You, me, and Ed. Hopefully, I’m not the only one in Colorado who can see that through the YesWeCannabis haze.